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It is the province of knowledge to speak,
and it is the privilege of wisdom to listen.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Old age is fifteen years older than I am.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Except in cases of necessity, which are rare,
leave your friend to learn
unpleasant things from his enemies;
they are ready enough to tell them.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Some people are so heavenly minded
that they are no earthly good.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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Alas for those that never sing,
But die with all their music in them!
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
When in doubt, do it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Greatness is not in where we stand,
but in what direction we are moving.
We must sail sometimes with the wind
and sometimes against it -
but sail we must,
and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
If you don't know what you want, you will probably never get it.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
A mind that is stretched by a new experience
an never go back to its old dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
To be seventy years young is sometimes
far more cheerful and hopeful
than to be forty years old.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
The best of a book is not the thought which it contains,
but the thought which it suggests;
just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones
but in the echoes of our hearts.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
A mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Fame is the scentless sunflower, with gaudy crown of gold;
But friendship is the breathing rose, with sweets in every fold.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble.
It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.
- Mark Twain (attributed)
Most people's historical perspective
begins with the day of their birth.
- Rush Limbaugh
Belief is not the beginning but the end of all knowledge.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge:
it is those who know little, and not those who know much,
who so positively assert that this or that problem
will never be solved by science.
- Charles Darwin
The possession of knowledge does not
kill the sense of wonder and mystery.
There is always more mystery.
- Anais Nin
Where there is shouting, there is no true knowledge.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.
- E. F. Schumacher
Where ignorance is our master,
there is no possibility of real peace.
- Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
The goal of education is the advancement of knowledge
and the dissemination of truth.
- John F. Kennedy
The great end of life is not knowledge but action.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
The difference between a successful person and others
is not a lack of strength,
not a lack of knowledge,
but rather a lack of will.
- Vince Lombardi
If money is your hope for independence,
you will never have it.
The only real security that
a man can have in this world
is a reserve of knowledge,
experience and ability.
- Henry Ford
Information is not knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
If what Proust says is true,
that happiness is the absence of fever,
then I will never know happiness.
For I am possessed by a fever
for knowledge, experience, and creation.
- Anais Nin
True friendship can afford true knowledge.
It does not depend on darkness and ignorance.
- Henry David Thoreau
Beware of false knowledge;
it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- George Bernard Shaw
Whoever undertakes to set himself up
as a judge of Truth and Knowledge
is shipwrecked by the laughter of the gods.
- Albert Einstein
Science investigates religion interprets.
Science gives man knowledge which is power
Religion gives man wisdom which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Eroticism is one of the basic means of self-knowledge,
as indispensable as poetry.
- Anais Nin
Knowledge of the Truth makes us free
by aligning us with that which was never bound.
- Ernest Holmes
Whoever loves instruction loves knowledge,
but he who hates correction is stupid.
- Anonymous
All Knowledge is Divided into Three Domains:
"What We Know",
"What We Know That We Don't Know", and
"What We Don't Know That We Don't Know."
- Werner Erhard
Knowledge is soon changed, then lost in the mist, an echo half-heard.
- Gene Wolfe
Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
To acquire knowledge, one must study;
but to acquire wisdom, one must observe.
- Marilyn vos Savant
We know nothing at all.
All our knowledge is but the knowledge of schoolchildren.
The real nature of things we shall never know.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is love and light and vision.
- Helen Keller
There comes a time when the mind
takes a higher plane of knowledge
but can never prove how it got there.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge talks, Wisdom listens.
- Anonymous
Those who have knowledge, don't predict.
Those who predict, don't have knowledge.
- Lao Tzu
Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
- Jimi Hendrix
Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources,
taking the best from every study,
Science of Mind brings together
the highest enlightenment of the ages.
- Ernest Holmes
In today's knowledge-based economy,
what you earn depends on what you learn.
- William J. Clinton
"To know" is to know that you know nothing.
That is the meaning of true knowledge.
- Confucius
The most telling act of true Faith
is celebrating the death of a loved one
with the certain knowledge that
they are now in a better place.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
I believe life's rich experiences need to be shared with others -
for me this is the way one builds knowledge.
- Pravs J
Science gives man knowledge, which is power;
religion gives man wisdom, which is control.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
Knowledge of what is, does not open
the door directly to what should be.
- Albert Einstein
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts;
wisdom lies in their simplification.
- Martin Fischer
All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.
- Leonardo da Vinci
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
Knowledge is limited.
Imagination encircles the world.
- Albert Einstein
Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth,
and if a man does not know what a thing is,
it is at least an increase in knowledge
if he knows what it is not.
- Carl Jung
The true sign of intelligence
is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein
The gift of fantasy has meant more to me
than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
When I examine myself and my methods of thought,
I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy
has meant more to me than
any talent for absorbing positive knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
Real knowledge is to know the extent of one's ignorance.
- Confucius
Knowledge is happiness, because to have knowledge -
broad, deep knowledge - is to know true ends from false,
and lofty things from low.
- Helen Keller
If a man empties his purse into his head,
no man can take it away from him.
An investment in knowledge always pays the best interest.
- Benjamin Franklin
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
- Helen Keller
The universal Mind contains all knowledge.
It is the potential ultimate of all things.
To it, all things are possible.
- Ernest Holmes
The only source of knowledge is experience.
- Albert Einstein
To be conscious that you are ignorant
is a great step to knowledge.
- Benjamin Disraeli
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance -
it is the illusion of knowledge.
- Daniel J. Boorstin
Knowledge is of the mind, wisdom is of the soul.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Imagination is more important than knowledge.
- Albert Einstein
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